Motor-car seat.



L. WILKENING.

MOTOR CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED IBB.15,1910.

Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

UNITED STATES LU'DWIG- WILKENING, OF HANOVER, GERMANY.

MOTOR-GAB. sm'r.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

Applicationflled February 15, 1910. Serial No. 543,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUDWIG WILKENING, a citizen of theGerman Empire, and residing at Hanover, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Car Seats, of which the folldwing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Hitherto the seats of motor cars have usually consisted of fixed seats provided with more or less yielding cushions. This class of seats, although providing to a certain extent for vertical olting or vibration does not take into account the forward and rearward erks or shocks or the lateral throwof the body in traversing sharp curves or in turning curves at a high speed.

The object of the present invention is to provide amotor car seat, which is supported. to yield in all directions thus reducm'g'the vibration transmitted to the persons on or in the car, to practically m'l.

In order to render the present specification easily intelligible reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is'a view of the seat in side elevation, a portion of the body of the car being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing two seats adjacent to one another, the cushions being removed.

Referring to. the drawings in detail, a and 6 indicate cross bars which are carried yieldingly by the curved supporting member h secured to the floor, member it being supported on a spring frame or member 9 which may be advantageously madeof thin fiat steel or other suitable material. The yield- .geously placed over the same to receive the cushions. The ends of the cross bars a and 6 might also be mounted in wound or helical springs, so that the whole seat would yield in'every direction.

In addition to the obvious advantages of a car seat of the above described construction it tends to considerably decrease the danger of traveling in that the yielding nature of the seats, in case of a collision, will save the knees of the persons sitting backward which are the parts most subjected to injury.

I claim as my invention In a seat, a plurality of curved supporting members, a plurality of cross bars connected therewith, a supporting spring located beneat-h one of said supporting members and curved. to correspond therewith, an additioiial supporting device cooperating with the spring, and flexible means connecting the scross bars.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LUDWIG WILKENING. 

